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Methodology

Geographic Coverage

Germany (DE)

Universe

The universe of the sample was comprised of the Online-Access-Panel
conducted by Respondi AG. This panel included 96,445 active members in
2013. The members of the Access-Panel are mainly recruited online. A
smaller proportion is recruited by telephone.

Due to the transformation into a STATA File ".dta", all open answers (kp7_840s, kp7_860s, kp7_4230s, kp7_4270s) were cut to 244 characters. Thus, we strongly recommend to use SPSS datasets for anlysis of open answers only.

Version changes

Changes between version 3.1.0 and it's previous version

Date

Subject

Description

Correction Description

2016-4-28

In variable kp7_3591 the coding was twisted and have been corrected.

2016-4-28

Changes between version 3.0.0 and it's previous version

Date

Subject

Description

Correction Description

2015-1-27

Due to a better comparability several variables were renamed. If the wording and the answer options differ, but have the same variable name as in 2009, the variable was given a new name. If the questions were collected totally equal but had erroneously different variablenames, they have been renamed into the version of 2009. See study description.

2015-1-27

2015-1-27

Suffixes of the variables "kp7_661", "kp7_650" and "kp7_261" were adjusted to their use in 2009.

2015-1-27

2015-1-27

The suffix “a” of the variable kp7_341a” was renamed to “j”, as there were two separate question concerning the party CDU/CSU in 2009.

2015-1-27

2015-1-27

The data quality indicators “kp7_itnrp”, “kp7_strl”, “kp7_mtime”, “kp7_mtimex” and “kp7_dokn” were added to the data set.

Publications

Groups

German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)
The German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is a DFG-funded project which made its debut just prior to the 2009 federal election. GLES is the largest and most ambitious election study held so far in Germany. Although the initial mandate is to examine and analyse the electorate for three consecutive elections, the aspired goal is to integrate the project within GESIS as an institutionalized election study after the federal election of 2017, and hence to make it a permanent study.